Protists

Question 1

What does protista mean?

Answer 1

the very first.

Question 2

What are heterotrophs?

Answer 2

organisms that consume nutrients.

Question 3

What are autotrophs?

Answer 3

organisms that produce food through photosynthesis.

Question 4

What are decomposers or parasites?

Answer 4

organisms that obtain food by external digestion.

Question 5

What are animal like protists called?

Answer 5

protozoans.

Question 6

How many phyla are protozoans divided into?

Answer 6

7

Question 7

What are the four major groups of protozoans?

Answer 7

Flagellates, amoebas, ciliates, and sporozoans.

Question 8

How do zooflagellates move?

Answer 8

They swim using flagella.

Question 9

Where are zooflagellates found?

Answer 9

Lakes, streams, and within bodies of other organisms.

Question 10

How do sarcodines feed and move?

Answer 10

pseudopods

Question 11

How do ciliates feed and move?

Answer 11

cilia

Question 12

Describe a ciliate.

Answer 12

A protozoan that contains a micro and macronucleus, is found in fresh and salt water, and is able to undergo conjugation.

Question 13

What are Sporozoans?

Answer 13

Parasitic protozoans that reproduce using spores and don’t move.

Question 14

Plasmodium causes what disease?

Answer 14

Malaria

Question 15

What is Trypansoma?

Answer 15

a zooflagellate, resposible for African Sleeping Sickness. It’s spread from the bite of the tsetse fly.

Question 16

What is Amebic dysentary?

Answer 16

A Prositan disease that causes sever GI distress and attacks intestines.

Question 17

What is Giardia?

Answer 17

A zooflagellat that’s found in many types of water and forms tough cysts that can only be killed by boiling water or adding iodine.

Question 18

What is trickonympha?

Answer 18

A protozoan that lives in the gut of termites that enables the termite to digest cellulose.

Question 19

What are Euglenophytes?

Answer 19

Unicellular Algae that has 2 flagella, but no cell wall. If sunlight is not available, they can live as heterotrophs.

Question 20

What are Dinoflagellates?

Answer 20

Bioluminescent/photosynthetic unicellular algae.

Question 21

What are chrysophytes?

Answer 21

unicellular algae with gold colored chloroplasts.

Question 22

What are phytoplankton?

Answer 22

Small, photosynthetic organisms, that live near the surface of the ocean and provide 70% of the earth’s oxygen.

Question 23

What are algal blooms?

Answer 23

Algae that grows rapidly where sewage is discharged and give off toxins when they die. This is also known as red tide.

Question 24

What is Red Algae?

Answer 24

Members of the phylum Rhodophyta and are very good at absorbing blue light, allowing them to live deeper than most algae.

Question 25

What is Brown Algae?

Answer 25

Members of the phylum Phaeophyta and include giant kelp.

Question 26

What is green Algae?

Answer 26

Members of the phylum chlorophyta and are found in moist areas. Many species are unicellular but a few are multicellular.

Question 27

What is a chlamydomonas?

Answer 27

a type of green algae that is unicellular and has flagella.

Question 28

What is a volvox?

Answer 28

a type of green algae that’s a hollow sphere.

Question 29

What is an ulva?

Answer 29

A type of green algae that’s multicellular. Includes see lettuce.

Question 30

What are Slime Molds?

Answer 30

a type of mold that feeds on dead or decaying organic matter.

Question 31

What are Water Molds?

Answer 31

A type of mold that feeds on dead or decaying organic matter and gives a fuzzy appearance on dead fish.